"Since September, at least six unhoused Chicagoans have been abducted by federal agents. That number is likely higher, but the social invisibility and isolation already faced by people experiencing homelessness make their disappearances harder to track" by @katieprout.bsky.social @mulchy.bsky.social

HL Mencken in 1918: "[Woman] may envy [man's] masculine liberty of movement and occupation, his impenetrable complacency... But she never envies him his puerile ego; she never envies him his shoddy and preposterous soul."

I highly recommend this great, thoughtful critique of Ezra Klein's book Abundance (and also a lot of his arguments in general).

just learned the word "incompossible" and I hate it

“Do not memorize one dictionary alone, a dictionary of the German language; instead, memorize dictionaries of two languages, and then reflect on their differences, which are the differences between two conceptual maps of the same universe.” —J.M. Coetzee

VAN 401: 🎭 Komische Oper's "Don Giovanni," reviewed by Jeff Brown and @hwfmorris.bsky.social 🎭 “Scratching,” cellist Katinka Kleijn’s one-woman performance piece, reviewed by Hannah Edgar and @juliaconrad.bsky.social 🎭 Ben Poore on Quartet for the End of Time van-magazine.com/mag/scratchi...

First known American citizen to be deported.

“Donald Trump and Elon Musk have declared that feeding children and supporting local farmers are no longer ‘priorities,’ and it’s just the latest terrible cut with real impact on families across Massachusetts,” Healey said in a statement. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

having a calming nightcap of some Susan McClary: “For music is always a political activity, and to inhibit criticism of its effects for any reason is likewise a political act”

Tesla worst day since Sept 2020 .. -14% $TSLA @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

For NYC folks, there's a protest scheduled for saturday at 1pm at the Tesla dealership in the meatpacking district, if anyone else is interested in going.

"Our country did not get here by being typical" :')

just an fyi: jeff bezos's email is [email protected]

reading Benjamin Labatut feels like asking ChatGBT a question

A worthwhile re-read of @juliaconrad.bsky.social's overview of the life and legacy of Julia Perry as well as cuing up the Experimental Orchestra's American Counterpoints for my #BlackHistoryMonth listening this evening. van-magazine.com/mag/julia-pe...

Any news outlet reporting Mexico conceded anything to Trump to get him to delay tariffs has not done its homework. Trump boasts he got Mexico to commit to stationing 10K troops at our border. Apparently he didn't realize Mexico already has 15K troops deployed there prami.ibero.mx/informes-y-i...

Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly

call me spoiled but i could really use some nightly Fireside Chats for the next 4 years on like... PBS

we need a new political party called the Humanity party

Wendy Carlos made the platinum selling album Switched on Bach in an apartment across the street from Zabar's ... make your own conclusions

goodbye to Tom Johnson, the passionate Village Voice critic who put language to minimalism, and who wrote an early review of Eliane Radigue's sounds "oozing from the walls" <3 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/a...

bless ProPublica for their series on the tax records of the .001%

my Italian boyfriend just burst into the room to declare "HE'S ITALIAN!"

The only good man is a missing man.

I wrote about why Black feminist classical music organizing in 1930s Chicago has been my Trump election security blanket -- and can be yours too!

mired in the mud of my own long-windedness